WHO Zika Emergency Committee Advises Pregnant Women To Avoid Travel To Zika-Affected Areas, Take Precautions To Prevent Sexual Transmission March 9, 2016 News Summary News outlets discuss the outcomes of the second meeting of the WHO’s Zika emergency committee and a briefing by WHO Director-General Margaret Chan. CIDRAP News: Growing Zika complication data color advice from WHO panel “Only five weeks after its first meeting, a World Health Organization (WHO) Zika emergency committee met…
CDC Director Says Agency Working With Puerto Rico To Protect Pregnant Women From Zika March 9, 2016 News Summary Reuters: CDC director calls Zika in Puerto Rico a ‘challenge and crisis’ “During a tour of Zika preparations in Puerto Rico, Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called Zika a ‘tremendous challenge and crisis’ and said protecting pregnant women from the virus is…
Johns Hopkins Neurologist Speaks With Los Angeles Times About Zika Virus March 9, 2016 News Summary Los Angeles Times: Could climate change be the culprit in spread of Zika virus? “…According to [Johns Hopkins University neurologist] Dr. Carlos Pardo Villamizar, warmer climates may have triggered the emergence and subsequent spread of the Zika virus by making more of the world habitable for the Aedes aegypti mosquito,…
U.N. Officials, Agencies Recognize International Women’s Day, Launch Effort To End Child Marriage March 9, 2016 News Summary U.N. News Centre: On International Women’s Day, U.N. officials call to ‘Step It Up’ for gender equality “Senior United Nations officials from around the world are marking International Women’s Day with calls to ‘Step It Up’ with more resources and greater political action to achieve gender equality by 2030. ‘I…
Sanctions On North Korea Hampering Access To Tuberculosis Medications, Humanitarian Foundation Says March 9, 2016 News Summary Washington Post: North Korean tuberculosis patients at risk as sanctions hamper medicine shipments “The lives of more than 1,500 North Korean tuberculosis patients are at risk, an American-run humanitarian foundation said Wednesday, because tough new sanctions are stopping medicine from getting to sick people. Following the multilateral sanctions imposed by…
WHO Needs Nearly $74.3M To Address Health Care Issues In Syria March 9, 2016 News Summary International Business Times: WHO seeks financial aid to support health care needs in Syria “The World Health Organization (WHO) needs $74.33 million in urgent aid to address the health care problems in war-torn Syria. Under its Strategic Response Plan (SRP) 2015, the WHO said it would work towards disease surveillance…
More Than 2.3M People Worldwide Infected With Both HIV, Hepatitis C, Study Shows March 9, 2016 News Summary International Business Times: HIV, Hepatitis C News: More Than 2 Million People Infected With Both Viruses, Study Finds “More than 2.3 million people internationally are infected with both HIV and hepatitis C, according to estimates from a study released Tuesday at the University of Bristol and the London School of…
Former South African President Mbeki Reignites Criticism Over Views On HIV/AIDS March 9, 2016 News Summary Associated Press: Former South African president criticized for AIDS comments “…Now [South Africa’s former] leader, Thabo Mbeki, faces fresh scrutiny for defending his old pronouncements about the disease. … Mbeki, who had questioned the link between HIV and AIDS, said in a Monday post on his foundation’s website that nutrition…
Ipas Trains Indian Health Care Workers In Safer Abortion Technique March 9, 2016 News Summary The Guardian: India’s doctors learn safer abortion techniques to cut maternal deaths “…At Vani Vilas hospital for women and children in Bangalore, in the south-west state of Karnataka, doctors and nurses gather for training in a safer, quicker [abortion] procedure — the manual vacuum aspiration technique, which is significantly underused…
President Obama Should Clarify Helms Amendment, Advance Reproductive Health Rights Of Women, Girls March 9, 2016 News Summary Huffington Post: American Foreign Policy Must Focus on Women and Girls Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs “…Restrictive reproductive health laws in Latin America already pose great challenges to women. We must act quickly to ensure the Zika virus doesn’t make these problems…